Consequences of breed formation on patterns of genomic diversity and differentiation: the case of highly diverse peripheral Iberian cattle

• Author(s): Fonseca, Rute R. da ; Ureña, Irene ; Afonso, Sandra ; Pires, Ana Elisabete ; Jørsboe, Emil ; Chikhi, Lounès ; Ginja, Catarina
• Date: 2019
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43059
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Chromosomes, Mammalian; DNA, Mitochondrial; Europe; Female; Gene flow; Genomics; Genotype; Haplotypes; Male; Microsatellite repeats; Phylogeny; Y Chromosome; Breeding; Genetic variation; Population genetics; Genome
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto da ULisboa

Description

Iberian primitive breeds exhibit a remarkable phenotypic diversity over a very limited geographical space. While genomic data are accumulating for most commercial cattle, it is still lacking for these primitive breeds. Whole genome data is key to understand the consequences of historic breed formation and the putative role of earlier admixture events in the observed diversity patterns.